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Updated 11:59 am, Thursday, May 24, 2018 Photo: AP Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 This combination photo shows Gwyneth Paltrow at the world premiere of "Avengers: Infinity War" on April 23, 2018, in Los Angeles, left, and Brad Pitt at the premiere of Netflix's "Okja" on June 8, 2017, in New York. Paltrow says ex-boyfriend Pitt threatened producer Harvey Weinstein after an alleged incident of sexual misconduct. The 45-year-old actress told “The Howard Stern Show” on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, that she was 22 when Weinstein placed her hands on her at a hotel and suggested they go to a bedroom for massages. Paltrow said she told Pitt what happened and the actor confronted Weinstein at a Broadway opening. less This combination photo shows Gwyneth Paltrow at the world premiere of "Avengers: Infinity War" on April 23, 2018, in Los Angeles, left, and Brad Pitt at the premiere of Netflix's … [Read more...] about Paltrow: Brad Pitt threatened Harvey Weinstein

Updated 9:50 am, Thursday, May 24, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Russell Contreras, AP Image 1of/5 CaptionClose Image 1 of 5 FILE - In this March 20, 2015, file photo, state Rep. Monica Youngblood, R-Albuquerque, waits for more bills to be debated on the House floor in Santa Fe, N.M. Youngblood insists in video released by police that she hasn't consumed alcohol, but the officer who stops her says he can smell it. Police on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, released lapel video of the arrest of Youngblood on aggravated drunken driving charge. She was detained early Sunday at a DWI checkpoint. In the video, Youngblood complies with the officer's requests to balance on one leg and count … [Read more...] about State lawmaker’s comments during DWI arrest to be reviewed

Two accused shoplifters arrested after Orlando police officers shot and killed a suspected accomplice at the Colonial Plaza shopping center this month likely won’t be charged with murder in his death, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Jocelyn Villot, 32, and Brittany Chandler, 26, have been in the Orange County Jail since May 7, when two officers shot Juan Alberto Silva as he tried to drive away from Colonial Plaza on East Colonial Drive.Villot and Chandler were in the back of the van, having just shoplifted clothing from Marshall’s, police said.Silva’s family has questioned why he was shot. The Orlando Police Department has a policy against firing into vehicles, though police Chief John Mina has said he believed the officers were in fear for their lives when they opened fire.In addition to grand theft and resisting arrest without violence, Orlando police arrested Villot and Chandler on charges of third-degree felony murder, under a state law that allows a person taking … [Read more...] about Shoplifting suspects likely won’t face murder charge in Orlando police shooting, prosecutor says

The State Attorney’s Office has dropped a domestic-violence charge against Seminole County Commission Chairman John Horan and closed the case, according to a document filed with the Clerk of Courts office late Wednesday.Horan, who was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, was arrested April 25 on a charge that he hit his 30-year-old son, according to court documents and a Winter Springs Police report.A day later, his son filed a signed statement in court stating that he doesn’t want to press charges against his father and asked that the case be dismissed. James Francis Horan added that he was not in “any further danger of injury or harm of any kind by the dropping of or dismissal of the above-noted prosecution.”In a 911 call, James Francis Horan is heard saying that he and his father were in a verbal dispute that turned physical over a motor vehicle accident the younger Horan was involved two days earlier.A court hearing was scheduled for Friday at the … [Read more...] about State attorney drops domestic-violence charge against Seminole Commissioner John Horan

0 View Comments BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Islamic State fighter in north Syria, the group announced Thursday. The Syrian Democratic Forces said they captured Adrien Lionel Kiyali on Saturday near Raqqa in Syria, the former self-proclaimed capital the jihadist group. French media reported his name as Adrien Guihal. In recordings from the Islamic State group, Guihal claimed responsibility for the July 2016 truck attack in Nice as well as the double killings of two French police officials at their home in Magnanville. According to the newspaper Liberation, Guihal is a convert to Islam who studied Arabic in Egypt and was close to Fabien Clain, another French IS member who himself claimed responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris. SDF forces backed by U.S.-coalition air and ground power seized Raqqa from the militants in 2017. The SDF appointed a civil council to administer the city, which was badly damaged in … [Read more...] about Syria: US-backed group capture high-profile French IS member

The head of the Montana Democratic Party on Thursday asked for a congressional ethics investigation into whether Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte lied to the police and the public when he assaulted a reporter last year.The request by the party's executive director, Nancy Keenan, comes exactly one year after Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs said Gianforte "body slammed" him for asking a question the day before Gianforte won a special election for Montana's only U.S. House seat.Gianforte eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and said Jacobs did nothing wrong. But Gianforte initially told police that Jacobs instigated the attack, and his campaign spokesman at the time, Shane Scanlon, released a statement saying the same thing.Keenan said Thursday that Gianforte has never owned up to lying to the police or the public, and he has never been held accountable for those statements."It's a matter of character for me," Keenan said in an interview with The Associated Press. "If we can't … [Read more...] about Democratic Party official calls for ethics probe over Rep. Gianforte’s attack on reporter

0 View Comments BERLIN (AP) — German police say a World War II bomb that partially exploded while it was being defused in the eastern city of Dresden has been successfully deactivated. Police said Thursday the nearly 9,000 residents who were evacuated from the city's downtown area Tuesday could return to their homes. Officials said the 250-kilogram (550-pound) British bomb, which was found during construction work, was difficult to defuse and after its partial explosion Wednesday some of the material next to the bomb started burning. Nobody was injured during the detonation. Authorities deployed a robot Thursday to douse the flames and after that found out that the bomb was no longer a threat. More than 70 years after the end of the war, bombs are still regularly discovered in German cities during construction work. … [Read more...] about WWII bomb successfully defused in German city of Dresden

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called off next month’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday, dispatching a letter to Kim that cited the “tremendous anger and open hostility” the regime had shown. “Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote in a letter released Thursday morning by the White House. The two leaders were slated to meet for denuclearization talks on June 12 in Singapore, but in the past two weeks both North Korea and the Trump administration have signaled that the prospects of the meeting proceeding as planned were diminishing daily. North Korea abruptly withdrew from a scheduled meeting with South Korea last week, and government officials from the north expressed concerns that a meeting with the United States would be “one-sided.” Trump’s letter came … [Read more...] about Trump cancels summit with North Korea

By Associated Press | May 24, 2018 at 5:01 pm By CATHERINE LUCEY, ZEKE MILLER and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic diplomatic turn, President Donald Trump on Thursday called off next month’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, calling the cancellation a “tremendous setback” for peace and stressing that the US military was ready to respond to any “foolish or reckless acts” by the North. Trump first announced his decision in a letter to Kim released by the White House, in which he cited “tremendous anger and open hostility” in a recent statement by the North, adding that it was “inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting.” Speaking at the White House later, Trump said a “maximum pressure campaign” will continue against North Korea and that he was “waiting” should Kim choose to engage in “constructive” actions. He added that it was “possible … [Read more...] about Trump cancels summit, citing ‘open hostility’ by North Korea